English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Mitch

02:02

@infinitesimal so you're watching the game?

infinitesimal

Yep @Mitch

infinitesimal

02:13

What a first half :O

Mitch

Looks bad for the paars

infinitesimal

Defence wins championships

Wins

Championships

Mitch

We had deep fried steak and cheese egg rolls and deep fried Twinkie.

Also something else deepfried

infinitesimal

Yum, yum :D

infinitesimal

02:31

Can this defence hold on to win this championship?

Mitch

No

infinitesimal

Yes

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Yes

infinitesimal

Remember vega$ keeps ALL the money bet on this game if Seattle wins this game by only 1 point because the opening point spread was Seattle -2. So "they" definitely want to see a close game.

DEFENCE!!!

Mitch

02:58

Nice catch!

Co Koder

Hi all

infinitesimal

Hi

Co Koder

You did not call me in the last two days from 01/31/2015 to 02/01/2015.

Is that correct sentence?

infinitesimal

I would say "You didn't call me for two days from .,.

Robusto

03:20

Jan 15 at 2:57, by Robusto

Pats 31, Seattle 27 in SB

@infinitesimal I called the 4-point delta.

And let the rest of the country moan. Pats win, Pats win, Pats win!

infinitesimal

Congrats @Robusto

Robusto

Thanks.

infinitesimal

Great game.

Robusto

What a bizarre game, though. What was Carroll doing calling a slant on 1st and goal with 20 seconds left?

infinitesimal

Live by the sword...

Robusto

03:23

Well, their sword was their running back.

infinitesimal

Yep

Robusto

Still, the Pats couldn't lose on another fluke catch.

That would have been manifestly unfair.

infinitesimal

True.

Robusto

4 rings for B & B.

infinitesimal

The first dynasty of the new millennium

infinitesimal

03:43

With a familiar theme

Hanaa

06:38

Hi!

infinitesimal

09:47

@MattE.Эллен I demand the limerick machine be suspended for spamming the chatroom :D

Jason Marsh

10:02

guys, if you had to pay monthly fee to use Reddit, would you still use it?

infinitesimal

No

Jason Marsh

As a return, you won't see any ads.

infinitesimal

Still no

Jason Marsh

Let's say it's only 5 dollars a month

infinitesimal

Not even a penny for what I can get for free.

Jason Marsh

10:04

how about Youtube?

infinitesimal

Nope

Jason Marsh

I'd pay for Youtube though.

infinitesimal

Perhaps Wikipedia

Or iTunes U

Jason Marsh

right

Stack Exchange

Limerick Machine: The zombies were shambling slow Not thinking of which way to go They bumbled around No brains to …

posted on February 02, 2015 by sgdi

The zombies were shambling slow Not thinking of which way to go They bumbled around No brains to be found I hope they don’t find us here though

infinitesimal

10:09

iTunes U is the best resource I have found @JasonMarsh

Jason Marsh

Is it about online lectures? I've personally never been on to that thing before.

infinitesimal

Yes

750,000 of them

Jason Marsh

Nice

infinitesimal

Definitely worth having a look at.

Jason Marsh

I think a problem with those online lectures is that it's a set of resources made difficult to use them like references or guides when you are working on your project or something.

I like my book Algorithms In Nutshell by O'Reilly for that reason because it's one of the easiest desktop reference that you can use it like a dictionary.

infinitesimal

10:17

That is definitely one of the outstanding features of a good textbook.

Jason Marsh

Plus, online lectures tend to make contents they teach easy as possible. I think it's due to they are not alone in the market, they always have competitions going on with other online tutorial websites.

So most of the time, their lessons are too simple and aren't detailed at all.

Matt E. Эллен

@infinitesimal sorry about that! Reblogged to the wrong account

infinitesimal

No problem pal @MattE.Эллен I was just having fun with you :D

Jason Marsh

Online lecturing sites gain more reputation by teaching something as simple as possible, on the other hand, books get popular by having detailed and exact contents as possible.

That is my opinion

So I'd prefer books but sometimes online lecturing sites when I'm bored.

infinitesimal

10:32

There are no royal roads to reading a well written textbook.

Hanaa

10:44

Hi everyone

Is here a native speaker?

Jason Marsh

11:20

Yes, this is a native speaker, how can I help you?

A Beautiful Mind

12:30

@JasonMarsh You don't sound like a native speaker to me.

@MattE.Эллен Where are you?

Hello @Mitch.

Mitch

Hey

A Beautiful Mind

Chinese New Year is in two weeks.

Hello @kit.

Kit Z. Fox

Hi, @ABeautifulMind.

crl

I'm going to solve mazes with that: jsfiddle.net/h661n2g6/10

A Beautiful Mind

My mum has some swollen lymph nodes, went to see doctor today, hope it is not serious.

Kit Z. Fox

12:42

@ABeautifulMind Probably just a cold.

A Beautiful Mind

Yeah, the last thing I want to happen now is for either of us to get a serious physical illness.

If that happens, we are pretty much screwed.

@KitZ.Fox How is your bronchitis now?

Kit Z. Fox

Hard to tell with the head cold.

A Beautiful Mind

I see you are clearing the stars.

It's all now more than one.

My mum is back, I will have dinner now, later.

Kit Z. Fox

see you

Kit Z. Fox

13:34

I love tapenade.

stuffs face

A Beautiful Mind

I just ate some noodles.

Kit Z. Fox

how is your mum?

A Beautiful Mind

Well, the doctor gave some antibiotics. It seems the swelling has reduced today.

Kit Z. Fox

great!

A Beautiful Mind

Did I tell you before that my father has a serious physical illness now?

Kit Z. Fox

13:42

I don't recall that you mentioned that.

How do you feel about that?

A Beautiful Mind

I don't really feel sorry for him though. He has rheumatoid arthritis.

I still have very deep feelings of hatred for him.

But on some days, I feel some compassion for him.

Kit Z. Fox

I'd feel pretty conflicted if I found out my mother had a serious illness.

A Beautiful Mind

I was about to use the word conflicted myself.

Kit Z. Fox

Mostly because I would feel like I should care, and I wouldn't.

A Beautiful Mind

Anyway he is staying with his sister who also gives him money, so that's good.

Jason Marsh

13:44

If you could possess one of the following mythical weapons, which one would you pick?
1) Equalizer - A magical hammer forged 9,000,000 years ago that if you hit someone with it, the person will change to a black person. If the person is already black, it won't do anything.

2) Dagger of youth - if you stab someone with it, the guy will go back to a stage of his life when he was 5 years ago.

Kit Z. Fox

Except that I would care as much as I would care about bad things happening to anyone, generally speaking.

@JasonMarsh That smacks of racism, and isn't really an appropriate topic of conversation here.

2

Jason Marsh

ok sorry

A Beautiful Mind

@JasonMarsh I pick the dagger of youth. I want to reverse time to right the wrongs.

Jason Marsh

I'd pick Equalizer because it's much more fun

terdon

Me too. Then I'd go around whacking rednecks over the head.

I hate Illinois Nazis

A Beautiful Mind

13:50

@JasonMarsh I am guessing you are a teenager. Am I right?

Jason Marsh

Nah, Im 23. I was recently discharged from Marines.

A Beautiful Mind

Good good. What are your plans?

Jason Marsh

I want to accumulate some money to establish a garage start-up

A Beautiful Mind

Good good. I wish you all the best.

Jason Marsh

Thanks

The start-up is going to be about transaction of memory in your head

A Beautiful Mind

13:54

What?

Jason Marsh

you can trade your knowledge with your mate for 10 bucks, for example.

Robusto

14:22

@Jason: I don't think what you said is necessarily racist. Such a "tool" might be used to acquaint oblivious people to actual racism, in fact. Don't be put off by overly PC reactions (unless you in fact did mean it to be racist).

crl

14:36

indeed that was not so racist as I first thought

but that still looks racist, and his absence of response is not reassuring

Mitch

14:54

@JasonMarsh What would be the point of changing them to black? And how is 5 years taking anybody back to their youth? And what's with the violent hammer and knife..can't you just tap them on the shoulder or something?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Is there a casual way to say "this can wait" on a positive note by pavlo on english.stackexchange.com

Robusto

@tchrist: Suddenly rsync -vau isn't working, even though I have verified that the target file is more recent than the destination file. Any thoughts?

tchrist

@Robusto Moment.

For the moment, I’m really pissed off at all the downvotes here:

-2

A: Uniqueness vs. Unicity

All three of uniqueness, uniquity, and unicity are attested by the OED, each with several centuries of citations. There is no especially difference in meaning between them. Here’s what you should therefore do: Use uniquity only when you wish to rhyme with such words as iniquity, or when you w...

Like, what the fuck is wrong with that answer?

Beyond typos.

terdon

@Robusto How is it failing?

Robusto

It's not copying the changed files over.

tchrist

14:59

@Robusto Are they the same size?

Robusto

@tchrist Dunno. I provided some mitigation just now.

terdon

@Robusto What are the filesystems involved?

Robusto

@tchrist No.

tchrist

Are the two machines’ clocks in perfect sync?

terdon

@tchrist Maybe people don't understand what the OED is. If so, they don't get that you explain that all three are "real" words.

tchrist

15:01

@terdon FMH

Robusto

@terdon It's always worked in the past. Just this morning it decides to come up zeroes.

crl

What's the difference between multicity and multiplicity?

Mitch

one is used by normal people, the other not

tchrist

@crl Multicity means that something applies to multiple cities.

crl

@tchrist oh totally different, ok

@Mitch :))

tchrist

15:06

> “We need a multicity solution to our traffic problems during rush hour.”

crl

multitenant multicity solution

tchrist

And multiëthnic

crl

pluriethnic is more common no?

tchrist

A multipolitan solution, just to keep the Greeks cringing.

terdon

@Robusto Weird. I would guess that the clocks are wrong as suggested by tchrist. Have you tried using -c to have rsync run a checksum?

crl

15:08

ah I see, you're pissing off Greeks

terdon

STOP THAT!

tchrist

@Robusto This has happened to me before, but it’s always been for a bunch of different reasons.

@crl And parrots.

terdon

@Robusto you could always try asking on Unix & Linux.

crl

and parrots

terdon

Θέλω ένα μπισκότο!

tchrist

15:10

Greeks and parrots of course prefer polypolitan to multicity.

Robusto

@terdon I tried that. No joy.

terdon

@Robusto Really? Does md5sum return the same result on both files?

tchrist

Are you running this from the command line or indirectly such as through cron, some daemon, or a CGI-triggered process?

I presume you are using the simple CLI invocation, not one requiring remote daemons.

Robusto

Command line.

tchrist

rsync -vau dir/file otherhost:dirname

Robusto

15:13

rsync -vau [sourcedir] [destinationdir]

tchrist

@terdon Not -c: it’s -C or --checksum.

@Robusto Are these on different machines?

Robusto

No.

tchrist

Ok, closer.

Are they actually different directories — and are you sure?

@terdon Oh, why was I thinking big C not little C? D’oh. Ignore me.

Mitch

@crl not in English.

terdon

No idea. Perhaps it's C on BSD.

tchrist

15:15

Are there things in sourcedir missing from destdir?

Robusto

@tchrist Yes, I am sure.

tchrist

Try using more -v's.

-vvau or even if all else fails, -vvvau

Robusto

Hold on, I think the file system for the source might have changed when I pulled the latest this morning. Maybe that is the problem.

Mitch

@terdon Parrots are called 'Thelo' in Greece?

terdon

@Mitch That was I want a cracker in Greek. I was hoping google translate would aid y'all.

Mitch

15:19

Ha ha! I tried to wing it.

Like a parrot.

terdon

:)

Robusto

Looks like my IDE, which before had updated from src to target is no longer doing that, and I'm using rsync to copy target to deployment. So that's why it doesn't work.

Why that suddenly stopped happening I can't say.

A Beautiful Mind

Things work in mysterious ways.

crl

@ABeautifulMind Have you done some Mathematica?

terdon

Parrot is actually παπαγάλος, presumably from the same latin origins as the Spanish papagayo.

A Beautiful Mind

15:23

@crl No, I don't use it.

@crl I don't use any math software, other than LaTeX.

crl

hmm ok, it looks fun and powerful for Maths, oh Latex is compulsory!

A Beautiful Mind

Using pstricks one can plot all kinds of graphs.

tchrist

@terdon And Italian.

A Beautiful Mind

Last night I felt terribly anxious, but right now, all the anxiety has subsided, for the time being. Again, very mysterious. I did not do anything or eat anything special.

Mitch

and German

tchrist

15:27

@Mitch Die Zauberflöte?

A Beautiful Mind

It is interesting that banana and papaya have similar spellings.

Robusto

@terdon So that's where Papageno comes from in Die Zauberflöte.

Mitch

Well, if it's magic, then -anything- can happen

Apropos of nothing, or rather 'parrot', "The German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt in South America in 1800 encountered a very old parrot that was the sole speaker of a dead Indian language, the original tribe having gone extinct."

4

The last speaker of a language was a parrot? I don't know who should feel bad about that.

A Beautiful Mind

@Mitch I wonder if the parrot really knows the language or just parrots words.

Mitch

Apparently not the parrot

A Beautiful Mind

15:31

Do parrots eat carrots?

Mitch

@ABeautifulMind I've always heard that they were just parroting the words

But I feel like recently research has shown that some birds (maybe not parrots) who can repeat human language actually use the words with some minimal intelligence

A Beautiful Mind

The life form that bit me has returned. I now seriously doubt it is a mosquito.

I have been searching for it all over my bedroom but still cannot find it.

@Mitch Humans are not much smarter than parrots.

Robusto

@Mitch And they can do abstract problem-solving.

terdon

@Mitch Damn, I was hoping your link was an article about that. Sounds very interesting.

A Beautiful Mind

There was a parrot in my school that used to make noise for hours continually.

terdon

15:39

@ABeautifulMind Yes, I had a few teachers like that too.

A Beautiful Mind

@terdon I used to be a teacher for a while. The students would not stop making noise, which is one reason I quit.

@terdon It is very rare for a mod of site X to frequent a room of site Y. In your case.

Wow, I suddenly feel so peaceful and calm, as if I just took some weed.

terdon

@ABeautifulMind Not rare at all. Both Oliver and Caleb who are here now are mods on SU and Christianity respectively. Also, I was coming here long before I was elected.

A Beautiful Mind

@terdon They come here but they do NOT talk.

tchrist

They’ll talk if you kick them.

A Beautiful Mind

I kicked them many times.

tchrist

15:47

I think not.

terdon

No, not often. Nevertheless, many of us hang out on multiple sites. I'm active on U&L, AU, SU, Biology and to a lesser extent SU and SciFi as well as here. I'm often in their respective chat rooms.

A Beautiful Mind

I might feel panic again the next hour, but I really don't know why I am so calm now. That is why I am repeating this statement.

terdon

Plus, the conversations here tend to be particularly fun or interesting.

tchrist

I’m talking about that brief conniption caused by an actual mod-kick, or in this case, a mod–mod-kick.

A Beautiful Mind

So now we have an ant and a fox in this room.

terdon

15:51

And a small, if shiny, plastic man.

Mitch

16:05

@terdon I know! A sode comment like that in a reference is just too tantalizing.

@Robusto Birds in the crow family are supposed to be able to do that...I thought parrots weren't supposed to be as bright.

But I was mistaken: "Parrots, along with ravens, crows, jays and magpies, are among the most intelligent birds," because they're in a close enough family.

@tchrist Ow! OW! Who's kicking me under the table?

Oops sorry, I was having a conniption fit. causes cramps in the legs.

Not as bad as a tizfit

tchrist

@EdwinAshworth Apparently subtlety is subappreciated here. I could have written to write a simple-minded one-liner answer hidden in a comment that blunderbusses people with Prescriptivist Commandment CCLIV (“Thou shalt uniquely use uniqueness and stop asking questions.”) , which would have set the GR close-voters upon this question. Is that what the Community desires? — tchrist 1 min ago

(edited)

Robusto

@tchrist ¿Qué?

tchrist

@Robusto If one were to kick our silent alien mods, they might finally notice us. (Actually, one says ¿Cómo? in that situation, no matter what you may have “learned” from watching Fawlty Towers. :)

Robusto

Muchas gracias

tchrist

De rien.

Wait, wrong language.

De nada.

infinitesimal

16:17

Thinking in two languages again?

tchrist

Conversationally, the de in de nada tends to get dropped.

@infinitesimal Pasan estas cosas even in the very best of familles.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Mitch I chased down a few references to the parrot thing.

There are conflicting details.

Some say the Maypure tribe was extinct and the Carrib tribe had their parrot. Humboldt's journals record Maypure words but don't mention parrots. Others say it was the Atures tribe that was extinct. Humboldt's journals mention a parrot nobody could understand at a place called "Maypures".

Mitch

People just repeat things. And then badly. So you never know if the original is mistaken or if the further rewordings inserted wrongness.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Whether or not the Maypures were the same as the Atures... who knows.

Robusto

@Mitch Cf. Eskimos have n words for snow.

Mitch

16:21

"A parrot nobody could understand" repeating words from a language no one alive speaks any more.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Mitch yes, the people there supposedly claimed it was from a neighbouring tribe.

Mitch

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 'Maybure' us the Atures word for "I don't know who you're talking about"

@Robusto at least that many.

tchrist

@Mitch That would be the Pope’s Pappagallo muttering away in Ecclesiastical Latin.

Mitch

@tchrist I feel like I'm channeling a lost chapter of 'The Name of the Rose'

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

The Humboldt's Dead (language) Parrot Sketch

Mitch

16:24

Nice. "floored understanding of an over-imaginative historian of generations gone by."

What is a 'floored understanding'?

a cooperation of 'flawed'?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

heh

I didn't notice that, I just skimmed it.

> ‘A tradition circulates among the Guahiboes, that the warlike Atures, pursued by the Caribbees, escaped to the rocks that rise in the middle of the Great Cataracts; and there that nation, heartofore so numerous, became gradually extinct, as well as it’s language. The last families of the Atures still existed in 1767, in the time of the missionary Gili. At the period of our voyage an old parrot was shown at Maypures, of which the inhabitants related, and the fact is worthy of observation that ‘they did not understand what it said, because it spoke the language of the Atures’.

That's supposedly from von Humboldt's journals

Mitch

The solution: just add 'In the following legend,....' to everything. So no one is telling a lie.

Except people will eventually drop the 'legend' part and accept it as history.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

In the following legend, how was your weekend?

Mitch

Exactly!

So how was it?

good I hope, in legend!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

In the following legend, I was asking you.

Mitch

16:30

Did you see the pats game? It was legendary!

Wait, that really did happen didn't it? THere's tape!

Robusto

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 It was legendary, of course.

Mitch

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 In the following legend, I floored through the air, and ignored answering you. Legendarily, I ate only fried foods. A full fried foods festive football ... um ... fete.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Oh right it was some sports-related weekend.

infinitesimal

As legendary as the the tuck rule.

Mitch

Yes, I've heard, in legend of course, that sports happen most weekends.

@infinitesimal OK...what does that mean, in legend from times past?

infinitesimal

16:33

Yep @Mitch

The pats are officially a dynasty.

Robusto

They were one before they won yesterday.

infinitesimal

Not officially.

Now we all know.

A Beautiful Mind

Do the Pats pat each other all the time?

infinitesimal

Only a dynasty can break that kind of defense.

Move over steelers there is a new member in your club.

A Beautiful Mind

What game are you talking about?

infinitesimal

16:39

Super Bowl.

A Beautiful Mind

Is that bowling?

infinitesimal

American football

A Beautiful Mind

Ah OK. I did not know you watch that, since you are not from US.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@ABeautifulMind you didn't know skull watches US football?!?!?!?

infinitesimal

Skullpatrol represents the dark side of all sports.

A Beautiful Mind

16:41

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I forget stuff I guess.

Mitch

All sports.

A Beautiful Mind

I think I know skull's location, but I will keep it a secret for his sake.

Mitch

@infinitesimal Who's going to win the cricket world cup? and what's the spread going to be?

Don't answer that!

infinitesimal

:D

A Beautiful Mind

@infinitesimal You are in ****** right?

infinitesimal

16:44

I am in the black hole

A Beautiful Mind

I don't watch much TV. Most movies are heavily censored anyway.

infinitesimal

Only the infinitesimal can exist there

Robusto

@infinitesimal If the team stays healthy, watch them try to go 19-0 next year.

infinitesimal

Possible.

Robusto

@infinitesimal Meaning "the Bay area" . . . ?

infinitesimal

16:46

Yes.

Robusto

I am in a Bay area as well, more or less.

infinitesimal

Hudson's Bay?

Robusto

Massachusetts Bay Colony

The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of North America (Massachusetts Bay) in the 17th century, in New England, situated around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston. The territory administered by the colony included much of present-day central New England, including portions of the U.S. states of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Territory claimed but never administered by the colonial government extended as far west as the Pacific Ocean. The colony was founded by the owners of the Massachusetts Bay Company, which included...

A Beautiful Mind

I go to Marina Bay.

infinitesimal

I know pal, I'm just having some fun with the champ.

A Beautiful Mind

16:50

The champ, or the chimp? =)

infinitesimal

Breaking that defense made up for what the Giants did to them.

Let the healing begin.

A Beautiful Mind

Healing is what I try to do every day.

infinitesimal

It takes time.

A Beautiful Mind

Marina Bay Sands is the most expensive building in the world, you know right?

infinitesimal

They say time heals all wounds...

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

16:57

@infinitesimal what about fatal wounds?

infinitesimal

Is it possible to survive a fatal wound?

If you die, then the wound was fatal.

Time heals most emotional wounds.

Given enough time.

Jez

17:12

gah, i really hate working with TFS and not Git

i want to delta my changes off another guy's work, but with TFS it means unshelving his stuff and making my own changes that get added into the mix, making an unholy mess

Mitch

17:30

@ABeautifulMind really? How many floors? why is it so expensive?

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 the bacteria will take care of the surrounding tissue.

@infinitesimal People forget.

@infinitesimal There's also "Time wounds all heels"

infinitesimal

Yes, memories fade...

If you're a heel, no amount of time will fix that.

Mitch

But they'll be wounded

Kit Z. Fox

@infinitesimal W00t!

infinitesimal

Congrats @KitZ.Fox

1 hour ago, by infinitesimal

Move over steelers there is a new member in your club.

Kit Z. Fox

That was a hell of a game.

I've never seen the Pats win a Superbowl, so that was extra special.

infinitesimal

17:45

Never?

Kit Z. Fox

Never.

infinitesimal

The hawks have now lost to two dynasties

Kit Z. Fox

I walked into a bar in February 2002 to discover that they had just won, literally I think two minutes prior. I didn't know it was Superbowl time, nor that the Pats were in it. My mind was boggled.

@infinitesimal They played really well.

infinitesimal

Yes.

George Pompidou

represent represent!

was rooting for the Chicago sports team in the big match last night

they didn't win... but then they didn't lose either so I'm fine with that.

infinitesimal

18:02

I'm really happy for you.

A Beautiful Mind

@Mitch Because it's really many buildings connected into one.

George Pompidou

everyone really kinda thought I was crazy, so it wasn't all that nice

my defense is that Seattle is kind of hood, and New England isn't even a city, it's just a big general region, why does that whole thing have one sports team? that makes no sense to me. so I can't support either of those bunk ass teams.

Chitown 4 lyfe

infinitesimal

A Beautiful Mind

I keep seeing these stupid local ads on youtube videos.

infinitesimal

Don't watch youtube

crl

18:12

Do you know adblock?

A Beautiful Mind

It's OK. I just skip the ad after a while.

The thing is I keep seeing this same ad over and over again, lol.

They must have paid youtube a lot of money.

infinitesimal

Yeah, it's called brain washing.

A Beautiful Mind

It's about this local sale here. So stupid, shopping is all that matters here, lol.

crl

since >90% of our brain is subconscient, I guess adds go easily there, even if you consciously skip them

Cerberus

@ABeautifulMind Install this in Firefox. addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge

Takes 1 minute and you will see no more advertisements.

A Beautiful Mind

18:23

@Cerberus Thanks Mario, lol.

infinitesimal

@crl I don't think the percentage is that high?

crl

@infinitesimal cracked.com/podcast/why-your-unconscious-mind-smarter-than-you

Mitch

@ABeautifulMind The Burj Khalifa is only 21st now

@infinitesimal I don't see the problem. That's what you probably meant to say anyway.

Cerberus

18:40

@Mitch Where are the great pyramids?

I bet they would cost far more if you correct for PPP and such.

Mitch

@Cerberus or any cathedral or mosque

But money is hard to translate. people's time and effort?

how long and how many people?

and do you count all the subsidiary businesses nowadays that make things possible like special lightweight glass for exterior skins?

@Cerberus no elevators and the ventilation is terrible. and dead people in the basement.

Cerberus

@Mitch I think the great pyramids would win?

@Mitch Yes, like that.

The marginal time and effort spent.

@Mitch Not exactly in the basement, right?

crl

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The Great Wall would win

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